When Debian updated to GRUB 2 (package grub-pc), it didn't automatically upgrade the MBR. Instead it configured the old GRUB 1 installation so that it will chainload GRUB 2; that way administrators ...

Having just bought a new laptop out of necessity, and ending up with Windows 8.1, because I work from home and the company only supports windows, and the identical 7 machine was almost $100 more than ...

I have a NTFS hard drive internally attached to my computer and it's causing problems with the other Windows installation on my dual (or triple?) boot machine.
I'm not sure if the partition scheme is ...

I have a disk with classic MBR and want to transform it to use GPT without data loss. I have seen several more or less useful tutorials, but most of them are dealing with the specific problems related ...

I want to dual boot PC-BSD 10.3 with ZFS as the root file system (the only file system) with Debian 7 (crunchbang linux) with ext4 using grub2 boot loader installed in MBR and grub is managed by the ...

I am using hexedit to show/edit disk MBR (512 Bytes, copied with dd).
When I open the file, hexedit displays the file as 9 columns, 4 bytes
per column (36 bytes per line). That is very unfortunate. I ...

Here's my problem, i recently installed linux mint on my laptop so now i don't have to use it on my gaming pc. However when burn windows image on pendrive and try to boot it i only get a grub recovery ...

I'm trying to use an external USB hard drive to copy data between a legacy production OpenBSD 4.2 system (on a slow, fragile network — that's not an option) and a new OpenBSD 5.5 box, and I'm running ...

I have a laptop for work. I originally had Windows 7 on it then I installed Linux Mint 17 to dual boot.
During my installation of Mint 17 I accidentally installed GRUB on the wrong partition (sda2). ...

I have a laptop, which has a 500GB hard disk and with MBR partition, and I install my windows8.1 on it, but I left ~75G unused which I would like to use it for OpenSuse13.1. Now I have 2 USB, one is ...

I currently have FreeBSD version FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE. Installed using a ZFS root. I'm attempting to mount a MBR partitioned drive but I can't get the partition nodes, /dev/ada4p1, etc. The partitions ...

Partitioning tools(for example fdisk) tend to leave a 2047 sector(LBA 1-2047, 1048064 bytes) between the MBR and first partition. On LBA 0 there is a MBR and from LBA 2048 starts the first partition. ...

Inspired by UEFI, I want to skip the stage of the bootloader (grub, lilo, syslinux) and boot linux directly. Is this possible? Cant I just boot the kernel directly, or have a minimalistic bootloader ...

I'm using a 32GB SD card for my raspberry pi. I have successfully transferred the operating system (Archlinux ARM) to a usb harddrive. Which means that I only need the boot partition on the SD card.
...

I am talking about disk signatures in context of the MBR. The area from 440 to 444 bytes.
Let's say I got a bootable raw image (bootable in a virtual machine).
How can I set the disk signature to a ...

I have a Sony VIAO laptop setup as dual boot (Ubuntu 12.10/Windows 7). Since I wanted to try Archlinux, I installed VirtualBox in Ubuntu. To create a bootable USB stick (from the ISO image on my hard ...

If I use a MBR partitioning scheme and create a primary or extended partition with fdisk(version 2.20.1), then it starts on sector 2048. If I remember correctly, then older versions of fdisk started ...

I have attached a FreeBSD disk to my Linux machine. How to detect if the disklabel(aka bsdlabel) is on the first sector of the disk or the PC MBR is on the first sector of the disk and disklabel is ...

I have an MBR formatted sd card and when connect to a Linux machine (xubuntu 12.04) it can mount a partition and parse the file system (as can GParted). However, when I try to read the MBR from the ...

I was trying to wipe my 4GB SD card which acts as the hard drive for the Raspberry Pi, so I went into Mac OS X Disk Utility* and Erased the entire disk, and specified that the whole disk be one big ...

Currently dual booting Windows 8 and Linux Mint 14, sooner or later I will give more space to my Linux system.
Is resizing my Linux partition from the beginning a safe operation ?
If yes, could you ...

I installed Lubuntu 11.10 and it run without problems. I decided to install Ubuntu 11.10 mini instead of Lubuntu 11.10.
After the installation the operating system didn't boot. I only saw the black ...